Voices: Rev. Joseph Ingle
November 9, 2018
Tennessee’s nine-year break in executions ended in August when the state killed Billy Ray Irick by lethal injection. Last week, Edmund Zagorski was executed by
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Voices: Cristina Bordé and Mara Tobis
May 10, 2018
When Vicente Benavides walked out of San Quentin State Prison late last month, the first prisoner in recent memory to walk off California’s death row,
Voices: Justice for Walter Ogrod may be finally at hand
April 13, 2018
One year ago, we wrote about the case of Walter Ogrod, a man whom many believe was wrongfully convicted of killing four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn
Voices: Eugene G. Wanger
March 9, 2018
The State of Michigan is the only state to have a death penalty ban in its constitution. That ban was enshrined 116 years after the
Voices: Nicola White
February 9, 2018
Nicola White is a London-based artist whose work is fashioned from the fragments of wood, glass, pottery, and other artifacts she finds on the banks
Voices: Kevin Cooper
January 12, 2018
“I have hope. And because I have hope I have life.” For Kevin Cooper, who has been on San Quentin’s death row since 1985, it
Voices: Richard Stack and “In the Executioner’s Shadow”
December 15, 2017
“In the Executioner’s Shadow” is a documentary that examines the death penalty from the per-spective of three very different people, and their very different experiences:
Voices: Richard Burr remembers Rob Nigh
November 9, 2017
“We have lost one of the best among us, but each day when we do something good for a client, we are renewing our connection
Voices: Bethany Webb
October 13, 2017
When Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals sentenced the man who killed her sister, wounded her mother, and killed seven others in the worst
Voices: Pamela Perillo
September 8, 2017
John T. Thorngren is 76 years old, and has had three heart attacks and two open heart surgeries. But he had one last item on
Voices: Matt Ruskin
August 11, 2017
“To spend 20 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, and emerge with his humanity and dignity intact … to spend 20 years, day in and day out, fighting for his freedom, it was just so extraordinary. It was totally compelling.”
Voices: Todd Peppers
July 14, 2017
“Marie is one of the unsung heroes from the early years of the fight against the modern death penalty. [Her] work on death row took a
OK Rep. McDugle alleges impropriety in Glossip’s clemency denial; AG asks SCOTUS to vacate Glossip’s conviction
July 25, 2023
Oklahoma Rep. Kevin McDugle, leader of the effort to free Richard Glossip, alleged last week that the District Attorney’s Council and Pardon and Parole Board
El Paso man sentenced to 90 consecutive terms for Walmart shooting
July 25, 2023
Patrick Crusius, who pleaded guilty in February to killing 23 people and injuring 22 others at an El Paso Walmart store, was sentenced early this
While we’re on the subject…
July 24, 2023
“If you take away the arguments about cost, deterrence, and closure, what’s left other than a call for vengeance?” the Idaho Statesman asks in an
Alabama resumed executions this month
July 24, 2023
The State of Alabama killed James Barber last Friday, its first execution since Gov. Kay Ivey called for a temporary halt in November after the
OK Attorney General asks SCOTUS to vacate Glossip’s conviction
July 10, 2023
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate Richard Glossip’s 1997 capital murder conviction and return his case to a
Texas high court rejects Rodney Reed petition
July 6, 2023
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Rodney Reed’s petition for a new trial in the murder conviction that sent him to death row 25
In brief: June 2023
June 27, 2023
In Oklahoma, Anthony Sanchez, on death row for 27 years, told CBS News in a telephone interview that he will reject his opportunity for a
Florida kills Duane Owen, its fourth execution in four months
June 27, 2023
Not even pleas from the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops were enough to persuade Gov. Ron DeSantis to commute Duane Owen’s death sentence and spare
Two death row releases: an Arizona man freed after 29 years; Ohio man released after 16 years
June 27, 2023
Two men, Barry Jones in Arizona and Lamont Hunter in Ohio, walked off death row the same day earlier this month, each wrongly convicted of
